Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am on record as saying we should be proactively probing organisations.

If an organisation is found to have a gap in its security system, the centre should be able to issue a warning and give it a period of time to resolve the possible gap, and if it fails to do that, it should be forcibly removed from the network and denied access to the worldwide web.

Another matter that is a major concern for me is the undersea cables coming to Ireland. We know that a cable was cut in Finland recently. We have the ridiculous situation in this country where the Garda Síochána is responsible for the undersea cables and the Naval Service, which is patrolling the sea, does not have the capacity to see under the sea. Without breaching security, is Dr. Browne comfortable that we have the right organisations looking after the infrastructure or the hardware, as it were?